Hour 3 - The REAL Dan Sullivan 

Clay Travis (0:00)

Welcome back in Hour Number 3, Thursday Edition, Clay and Buck, we appreciate all of you hanging out with us. And we want to dive right in here to the story we started off the day with, the one that we have been talking about the most all day so far.

New York Times has it dead to rights that the Mary Peltola Democrat campaign, well, I think it's quite clear, committed fraud, may well have lied in its court filings because they were directly involved in getting a decoy, Dan Sullivan, on the Alaska Senate ballot. We are joined now by the real Dan Sullivan. What was your reaction when you read this report? We know you're out on the campaign trail five days till election day. Everybody in Alaska needs to vote for the correct Dan Sullivan. But what was your reaction when you read this New York Times report? Did it surprise you and what do you think should happen next?

Dan Sullivan (0:58)

Hey, Clay and Buck, great to be on the show. You might remember, last time I was on the show, I said, come on up to Alaska, right? We'll get you up here after we win this campaign. Yes, sir.

Look, you know, remember, the state of Alaska, the Division of Elections already had kicked this guy off as a fake candidate. And then our liberal courts put him back on. So in some ways, well, not in some ways, we already knew this, but I will tell you, I was shocked at the extent to the lying, right? Mary Peltola's campaign and the top Democrat Senate campaign operatives, the DSCC, ran a secret operation. And guys, they started this in the summer of 2025 to put a fake candidate, Dan Sullivan, fake on the ballot with the sole purpose of tricking Alaskans. And then for the last year and a half, including yesterday, guys, they have denied it. Peltola continues to look the Alaskan people in the eye and lie. And I will tell you, she should be ashamed. Three words come to mind on this, in a legal scheme, lying, contempt for Alaskans, and shame. And they're still doing it. Look, guys, they think that they can run through the tape, lying to Alaskans like Peltola was doing all day yesterday.

But I don't think so. I think this is gonna spur, and I wanna emphasize this enough for all the Alaskans listening to this. We know we got a lot of people listening to Clay and Buck and our great state.

Get out and vote. The Democrats have put forward a scheme to trick you. They've been doing it for a year and a half.

Don't let them do it. Don't let them steal your vote to all the Alaskans. Get out and vote. Even the Democrats, I'm encouraging them to vote for me. You cannot want a senator like Peltola to go to Congress based on a lie. And not only a lie, but a year and a half long scheme that they've been running. By the way, Clay and Buck, if you read the New York Times story, they even had a name for their secret operation. It's called the Ballot Composition Project. Alaskans have a simpler name for it. It's a con.

Buck Sexton (3:33)

Yeah, so they should call it the Ballot Compost Project because that's what they're doing to the ballots of people who are getting confused.

They're trashing them. It's gross. They shouldn't be allowed to get away with it. Senator, is there enough word out there, you think, right now in Alaska? Sometimes we down here in the lower 48, we're very much in our news cycle and we're focused on the things that are getting coverage and sort of the national media. But up in Alaska, is everyone pretty much aware of this New York Times story? Who's following the news at all? How much has it penetrated? Because to me, this should be the nail in the coffin for anybody who thinks that Peltola can sneak this one through.

Dan Sullivan (4:17)

Look, you know, guys, you never know the answer to that question. I hope so.

You know, it's not like I get up and read the New York Times every day. But actually, that makes this article even stronger, right? Peltola yesterday was like, it's the New York Times, the conservative New York Times coming after me. Yeah, I don't think so. It's not the conservative New York Times.

And it's not just one person. There's text messages, there's e-mails. This is a very well-researched piece that's critical. Remember, this is really a national scandal, because Chuck Schumer has been telling people for months that his pathway to be Senate Majority Leader is through Alaska. And the DSCC, that's the group run by Gillibrand, the other New York Liberal Senator, was involved at this at senior levels. And by the way, those guys have denied it. Peltola's campaign is denying it. And they're all looking at the American people and the Alaskan people, and they are just simply lying. Again, all Alaskans should read this article, but what it just shows again and again, Clay and Buck, is how much disdain the Democrats, but particularly Peltola has for the Alaskan people. I mean, look, when you run for office, at least in my experience, and you're deciding to run for office, what do you typically do? You put together your record, you put together your vision, you put together how you want your campaign to work and what you want to promote as part of who you are, right? That's what I've done every time. Well, Peltola had two terms in the Congress. She got zero bills signed into law. She missed 20 percent of her votes. So obviously, she wasn't going to run on her record. But what's remarkable about this, six months before she announced that she was running for the Senate, the first thing she and her campaign did was get together with the top Democrat senatorial staff in DC and not say, here's what I'm going to run on my strong record. They said, let's figure out how to cheat Alaskans to deceive them to throw away their votes. That was the first thing that her campaign did. It just shows you A, she's got no record, B, she's got no character, C, she's lying like crazy to the Alaskan people. She's completely unqualified to be a United States senator, based not just on her record as a far left liberal, but even worse, lying to the people.